Cycling the Bay Area & Stories from the Garden

Sunday, why yes, it is quite sunny, Thank You!

Another beautiful day here in the Adam’s Point neighborhood of Oakland, CA.

Golden pansies continue to provide garden beauty

Flowers in bloom include the above pansies and my primrose, which seem to always pop back into bloom when I least expect them to be blooming. They are definitely more than the perennial they have been touted as, seeing that mine have been in continuous bloom for nearly 2-years now. This weekend, both white and yellow primrose blooms are in full glory.

White Primrose

Yellow Primrose

My Euphorbia garden is growing at an unbelievably fast rate!!

Euphorbia growing well

More of the vertically growing Euphorbia

I also have some volunteer potatoes giving it a go in the Peace Lilly patch!! I assume that they are Yukon Gold as that is the only potato that I have ever tried to grow in the garden. Thought that I had pulled them all last year when the plants developed a potato blight which caused all of the leaves to develop brown spots and begin to wilt and die. I will continue to watch over these, who know, might just get a crop out them after all!

The Spuds are Coming, The Spuds are Coming!!

Yukon Gold?? Should be, it’s the only ‘tater I ever tried to grow!?!?

The orchids indoors continue to grow some new foliage, time will tell if this signals the arrival of any new flower spikes. Neither of these orchids has ever bloomed since I have had them, so it would be great to see them bloom, just to see what kind they are!

Orchids continue to produce new foliage

A close-up view of the new orchid growth

That is about all that’s new in garden news!! Two posts, one day, now I have hungry cat and some last of the weekend TV to enjoy!! I hope that everyone had a great garden weekend!! Will be back next week with more updates from the garden!

As usual, I leave you today with my parting shot: The aforementioned hungry cat, Ms. Gretchen!!